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The answers were in response to two POLITICO stories, one that said Republicans were working on strategy to run against women candidates and another that reported Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) was urging the National Republican Congressional Committee to withhold money from gay candidates.

Boehner (R-Ohio) said bluntly that “when you look around the Congress, there are a lot more females in the Democrat Caucus than there are in the Republican caucus.”